1,000,000 EV Chargers by 2030! Wallbox Arlington, Texas Factory Tour 

Thank you Duain. I have done videos on the Chevy Bolt EV, which is a very good value.

you already seem to know, 10 times as much as the average salesperson lol..... Good luck in your new career.....

Tom is just extremely hardworking and thorough!

Thanks, Lori!

Yeah, kind of. :)

I was shocked that the Tesla factory didn't come here. The area is a transportation hub, has major freeways, both BNSF and UPRR, The alliance freight airport along with D/FW. It has a skilled labor pool, a university with strong engineering, and business friendly city & county governments. Of course it does lack the Austin party scene, so there's that.

Their customer service is also top notch. One of the units was defective and they overnighted a replacement unit before I had to send back the defective unit.

LOL, I did! We had a conversation about it because it currently doesn't, but they said they could easily add it and I stressed (pretty forcibly) that they do!

As well, make sure the screens do not face the Sun. I'm so tired of not being able to read the screens because of the intense glare or sun damage. Also, they should use glass because it doesn't yellow, or get thousands of tiny cracks that make viewing nearly impossible. I drive past several chargers everyday that have been unusable for well over a year now simply because the screens have become opaque due to significant yellowing and or disintegration of the screen. These chargers are otherwise working (and are listed a such), but I can't imagine how anyone could use them.

The issue is CCS is just finalizing the protocols for bi-directional charging vs CHAdeMO which has had the protocols for many years....

I would have liked that. I didn't know where to go to get good BBQ

Yes, it's next

Sorry did not watch long enough you answered my question about the hypernova.

The 32 amp capable clipper creek will work fine with a 30 amp capable car.

@@charliesullivan4304 thanks

Yes, I saw 6 I believe and they said they plan to install more as needed. I don't remember about solar, but I'll ask.

I'll reach out to them. I'm going to visit Blink next.

I believe for all of North America

Sure, but Wallbox is one of the dozens of EVSE manufacturers. They aren't going to be supplying the entire industry. They would probably be extremely happy if they held a 5% market share.

@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney Tom do you know offhand how many evse manufactures are here in the U.S. right now building at scale? I know we have tesla, wallbox, Siemens I believe has a facility and freewire to.

That's the prediction for all units made at the factory

No, they aren't bringing it here.

@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney dang, looks like I'll have to search in Europe for a single phase 240 volt Quasar. :-(

g00gle dcbel-r16, It is produced by a Canadian company, so it's for the North American market and It has Chademo V2H, capabilities.... plus 22.5 kW DC charging... My two caveats about it is that it's designed as a system, That also includes photovoltaic capabilities, so it's kind of pricey at about $5,000, as a starting point.... Plus they were supposed to roll, it out, over a year ago and I haven't heard much about them, in terms of their rollout... or any type of updates whatsoever.... It's supposed to have the capability that you're looking, for too, so I figured I'd mention it, but caveat emptor.... Good luck.....

@@jdlutz1965 Be careful, since the US uses a split phase 240 volt service.... And I have seen too many posts of fires, when single phase units are used.... BTW BenjaminNelson YT channel, has a DIY series on how to create a DC Chademo backup feed unit, for an Mitsubishi i-Miev to solar city inverter... But he warns viewers not to try it themselves.... I hope you get a chance to check out the dcbel-r16.... Good luck.....

@@nc3826 I'm familiar with the dc-bel option but really don't need the large inverter as I already have solar and Tesla Powerwall, so was hoping a bidirectional charger like Quasar could be used to supplement my system during long outages. I'll do more research and see what can be done.

Perfect timing. I'm currently working on a video about how the grid will handle millions of EVs.

@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney I know EVgo is supposed to be 100% renewable energy, meaning they product more energy than what is consumed, but they aren't everywhere yet. My City only has 3 of their stations and none of them has a Tesla connector, so an adapter is needed.

There are standards, but I don't know if everyone has agreed to use them.

Yes there is.... But I mostly commenting, to hear Tom's feedback.....

Yes, the Hypernova is P&C capable, but the company that buys, installs and manages it is ultimately responsible for making that feature available to the public.

Ah they talk about 500 amps later. Still the standard doesn't exceed 350 kW. Unfortunate that the steps are 100 kW, I think Kempower is more granular at 50 kW or maybe even 25kW steps.

Yes, they're rated to deliver the full 500-amps. The units split power between the two cables, so I took it as 200 kW times two, not 400 kW to one cable. No EV would be able to accept that anyway.

In 1915 we didn't have the infrastructure for the few gasoline vehicles that existed much less the 10's of millions that were coming. You couldn't drive across a major city much less a large state and be guaranteed to find a gasoline station that was open or would even have any gasoline to sell. Surely you can see the effect it "failed" to have on the adoption of ICE vehicles. Your argument makes little sense. Already infrastructure is being rapidly upgraded. "...in reality, wind energy accounts for very little of the crisis in Texas. Some wind turbines did freeze. But it wasn’t just that one part of the electrical grid that failed-the entire system was unprepared for the extreme weather, which caused demand to spike (as people needed more energy for heat) and throttled supply, as gas wells and pipelines froze, and power plants shut down because of the cold. Coal and natural gas account for more than 80 percent of the state’s power capacity, and as Princeton University energy systems engineer Jesse Jenkins has documented, failures related to those sources of energy accounted for a far more significant share of the problem than did frozen turbines. Roughly 40 percent of the capacity that the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which oversees the state grid, was depending on from thermal sources (gas, coal, nuclear) simply wasn’t available. If there’s one primary culprit, according to ERCOT, it’s natural gas providers. In The Texas Tribune, Michael Webber, an energy resources professor at the University of Texas at Austin, described the failures of the natural gas industry as “spectacular...” - Zoë Carpenter, 2/19/2021, from an article in "The Nation" Yes electric vehicles move the demand from Ice vehicles using oil (gas and diesel) to electric vehicles drawing energy from the grid. According to the EPA website as of 2020 the grid mix is: Nuclear (20%), Renewables (20% and rising), Natural Gas (40%), Petroleum (1%) and coal (19% and dropping). However, with EV's getting their energy from a mixed grid CO2 is significantly reduced per mile and and less energy is wasted per mile. Please spare us any attempt at a riposte concerning CO2 and plant growth. Beyond CO2's effect on Ocean Acidification and the increased growth of certain non-edible plants and trees please consider the conclusion of recent studies concerning rising CO2 levels and the negative effects on the growth of "food" crops. Yes an increase in CO2 can make certain plants grow but so will Bull $h!+ unless there's too much of it. It's nice that they are installing chargers in apartments but in reality apartments won't need to have chargers for the same reason they don't have gas pumps, they're simply not essential. The number of new charging stations being installed is huge and will make it nearly impossible to live anywhere where there won't be a charger within a few miles. Most new EV's are getting between 250 and 350 miles per charge. The average American commuter will need less than 50 miles each day (less than 12 kWh of electricity), and will likely need to charge less than once a week. How is visiting a neighborhood charge station on your way home once a week any different than visiting a local gasoline station?

That's 400 kW, and currently no. The highest I have seen was when I charged the Hummer EV and that charged at 367 kW.

1,000,000 per year run rate, possibly higher

all good points, but when will emporia come out with a bidirectional charger?

Emporia factory tour next?

No, but I believe they accept wampum. 😃

Yes, you just need to use an adapter.

800v cars usually

The charging rate drops off, so you can't extrapolate

That being said, Hyundai does claim 10 to 80 percent in just 18 minutes

@@laloajuria4678 - It's the power being transferred that determines the charging speed, not "necessarily" the voltage. 800V does allow for half the amperage for the same power transfer as compared to 400V (allowing for the use of a thinner, lighter charging cable with less power loss), but similar power levels could be achieved with 400V systems also. However, above 250kW a 400V charging cable would become unwieldy likely needing to employ much thicker copper wire to control heat and subsequent power loss, (might even require some sort of thermal cooling).

What I want to know is how long did it take for the charging to initiate? It looks like there was an edit removing some of the waiting time.

Ouch.

Why would you think they won't install Tesla connectors on their products now that they are allowed to? I would imagine they will. All of the existing EV charging manufacturers would have also installed Tesla connectors if they were allowed to. Tesla wouldn't give anyone permission to do so, that's why only EVgo has Tesla connectors on its chargers, and that agreement only happened very recently.